23/6/12

Today we went to Honfleur and Etretat. Both were cities I have never heard of and had semi-low expectations for what this excursion was going to bring. I was mistaken. Honfleur was another example of why stereotypes of European towns are made. It was stunningly beautiful and sunny (not the town... but it helped. Would have been less fun had it rained). We got there and walked around in a tour for a little bit, then tailed off because we were super hungry. This was an experience because we stopped at a café and me and my friend Jim decided to split a meal called Fruits de Mer. It essentially means fruits of the sea. What we got was nothing like we expected. There were 3 oysters (raw-still salt water on them), 4 clams (the same), 3 shrimp (heads and all), 2 prawns (bigger shrimp with claws where I literally broke him in half and was using the knife to mush up his innards to a goo which I then slurped out. Oh and this was in the upper half, the lower half was a delicious tail. But yea... scrambled prawn brains woo) about 20 Whelks, which are sea snails and look literally like a gross goober, and about 50 little black things which, when taken from its shell, looked like snot. All of this was raw and frankly, a little hard to put down. Decent nonetheless.

Then in Etretat we went to a beach. This beach was nice except for the sand--- it was rocks that varied in size from a half dollar to a tennis ball. Comfortable to sit on but terrible to walk on. The English Channel was also pretty nice to walk on. After a while on the beach, we got some ice cream. It was super amazing except there was a little language barrier and mistakes were made in ordering the ice cream. We wanted one single scoop of chocolate and 2 single scoops of cookies and cream. So in all, three cones with one scoop each. We ended up with one cone with a scoop of cookies and cream and chocolate (2 scoops), one cone (mine) with 2 scoops of cookies and cream, and the third with 2 scoops of chocolate. Whoops. And it was a beautiful day, so that made it all the better too.

This is Honfleur. I guess i forgot to mention it is right on the Channel and we got to eat under the red awning. That is why we got seafood. Figured it would be fresh (we were right)

Oh yea... the beach was surrounded by this on the left side and an almost matching one on the right. Simply stunning.

And of course I need to put this up for mez. Sorry its not the best quality and I can never find information on any of the organs.